BEDMINSTER - President Donald Trump is spending the weekend in Bedminster, for his first 2018 visit to his golf club in the township.

Trump is expected to leave Trump National Golf Club on Sunday, and during his visit, he told reporters he may interview some potential candidates to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who announced his retirement earlier this week. He told reporters that he plans to announce his nominee on July 9.

As the president considers the next Supreme Court justice nomination, activists unhappy with his administration's immigration policies are preparing for protests in Bedminster and around the state and nation.

President Donald Trump and wife Melania leave Morristown Municipal Airport in Marine One as they return to New Jersey on their way to his Bedminster golf club Friday afternoon. It's the president's first weekend at Bedminster this year. June 29, 2018. Hanover, NJ
(Photo: Bob Karp/Staff Photographer)

There are VIP Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR) from June 29 to July 1 in the areas of Bedminster Township, Morristown, and Newark, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Activists have been protesting regularly in Bedminster for 18 months now, but this weekend could bring a larger crowd, since it coincides with Families Belong Together protest, a nationwide event protesting the Trump Administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents when entering the United States illegally.

Protests are planned Saturday throughout Central Jersey, including in Bedminster, Edison, Flemington, Lambertville, New Brunswick and Princeton, in addition to several other locations around the state.

Mayor Steve Parker said he hasn't heard of the specifics of the Families Belong Together protest set to take place in Bedminster this weekend, but the township's chief of police is speaking with organizers to get an idea of the amount of people expected to make the trip to Bedminster.

Parker is, however, more familiar with the People's Motorcade protest.

Bedminster has been the site of the ongoing People's Motorcade protest, which includes anti-Trump activists driving in a convoy past Trump's golf club and to the Clarence Dillon Public Library to chant and wave signs critical of the administration.

Organized by Branchburg resident Jim Girvan, the event has taken place nearly every Saturday in the summer and early fall since the president took office.

Jim Girvan, of Branchburg, gets ready for the People's Motorcade, a protest effort that includes driving by Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster with anti-President Donald Trump signage.(Photo: Nick Muscavage/Staff Photo)

"I think as long as they respect the people of Bedminster and respect the limitations and don't do it on private property, I don't expect any problem, much like last year," Parker said. "Things went actually pretty well with that regard."

Girvan said he is "expecting them to be just as peaceful and respectful and earnest in their opinion" as they were last year, regardless of which side the protesters fall on.

The motorcade meets at Ten Eyck Park in Branchburg between 9 and 9:30 a.m., then travels past Trump National Golf Club and arrives at the rally site at the library.

The Families Belong Together rally will also take place at Clarence Dillon Public Library at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

"The goal this weekend is to participate in the national day of action," said Girvan, who serves as the chairman of the Branchburg Democratic Party. "To bring attention to the policies that were implemented in April separating families. That was a policy implemented by this administration."

Any time a VIP flight restriction is issued, local airports suffer financially.

Central Jersey airports could be reimbursed for their losses when they're forced to closed for security reasons because of Trump's trips to his golf club in Bedminister.

Under legislation proposed by U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance (R-7th District), a reimbursement program will be created for airports and other businesses, such as hot air balloon flights and skydiving, that are shuttered for security reasons whenever the president comes to Bedminster.

The legislation calls for $3.5 million to go to the airports and businesses affected by the restrictions.

The legislative text was recently inserted into the transportation spending bill on the committee level, according to Lance's spokesman. The next step is passage in the House of Representatives, which is expected in July.

“Protecting the President and First Family is the highest priority, but accommodations should be made for those where livelihood is reduced when the President is in town," Lance said. "It is a matter of fairness that airports and businesses grounded by no fault of their own see some type of compensation.”